Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-12-19
TRLEGRAPHIC BREvITIES.


OtNtIdl ptlSODS nave Dten kllltQ III u
Kentucky feud.
The New York Appraisers stores were
robbed of $4,000 worth of silks.
Three departments of the Steel Works at
Braddock, Pa, have closed down.
Cleveland is preparing special message
to Congress on the railroad investigation.
Jack Carkeek, the California wrestler,
arrived at New York from Liverpool Satur-
day evening.
The Eastern papers generally concede
that the majority OF the delegates to the
Clubs Convention were for Blaine.
Jem Carney publishes an acceptance of
Jack McAulitf's challenge of ten-rouDd
glove-6ght Cor 81 GOO within three weeks.
At Reading, Pa, the greatest snow of the
year fell on Saturday afternoon. and at 10
O'Clock at night its depth was eighteen
inches, and still falling.
Ex-Public Printer S. P. Rounds, editor
and proprietor of the Omaha Republican,
died at Omaha on Saturday of pneumonia,
after an illness of ten days.
A den of counterfeters was discovered
on an island in the Arkansas river, near
Wichita, Kan, and a quantity of spurious
| coin seized. Two men eluded arrest.
John W Mackay is to retire from the
| Nevada Bank if Wall street reports may be
| relied upon. \ Scotch syndicate, it Is
stated, has bargained TO take the bank, pay
| ing the marks value of all the institu-
tons assets and adding 100000 for good
will.
| Attempt is being made in Ohio and polit-
| ical circles in New York and Washington
| to induce Frank Hurd to accept the nOmi-
nation with Cleveland. 1t is argued that
he would strengthen the Democratic party
in the West and bind the party to revenue
reform.
The case against Henry S. Ives, charged
with stealing a draft OF 100000 from the
! Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton Railway,
was dismissed on Saturday. Ives says he
will at once institute proceedings against
! Dexter, claiming 100000 for malicious
! prosecution.
On Saturday thrilling accident hap
! pened to Miss Marie Greenwood, the oper-
attic prima donna. She visited Niagara
Falls with some friends, and while near
the water she slipped and would have gone
over the falls had she not been grabbed by
one of the gentlemen present.
FOREIGN.
The Sultan gave a reception to Wander
bilt.
The Italian budget shows Il deficit of
| 50 $50 900.
Carnot will pardon all political prisoners
on January 1st.
The Duke of Norfolk has had an audi
ence with the Pope.
The Turks are hastily extending the
Notifications on the Bosporus.
The Hyde divorce case in London prom
Uses sensational developments.
lV;II;a,, ~, Ca+rrla,, loll -,
council on the military situation.
Swinburne has written satire upon the
Baconian authorship of Shakespeare.
The impression prevails in England that
the Smith-Kilrain fight is to be a grand
fake"
German bankers propose to open 4 Ger
man-Chnese bank, with branches i'll all
the treaty ports
Aubertin, the man who shot Ferry, is
violently insane, and the doctors have little
| hope OF his recovery.
The PcSthc Lloyd contends for the neces-
sity of crushing Russia in the event of war
| and rectifying the frontier.
While out shooting on Saturday with
some friends the Prince of Wales received
two shot in the face. The injury was
slight.
A dispatch from Vienna says the Delega-
ton will vote 10000 600 forms to the Gov
eminent in the event of preparations being
made for war.
Parnell is on view daily in the pleasant
country roads and lanes about Chiselhurst
and Ethan. He looks very hearty and
rides q good nag.
Government circles in Berlin and Vienna
are becoming convinced that the allies
| intend TO attack Russia early in the spring.
Military circles in Vienna regard cam
paign Us even closer.
PACIFIC COAST.
i. T. Steel, of Nevada county died on
Saturday.
Two burglaries have been committed at
MERGED within week.
The condition of Judge David Belden. of
San Jose, is very critical.
The Salt Lake Mormons have defeated
the free schools proposition.
The proprietor of the paper mill at Cor
ralitos has been indicted for emptying waste
in the creek.
J. NJ. Provard and companion have ar
rived safely at Ell Paso, after outwitting a
band of indians.
Miller, the slayer of DIR. Glenn. has been
ordered to be transferred from Folsom to
San Quentin, on his petition to that effect
1t is now stated by the proprietor of the
Woodland Democrat that the paper is not to
be run as religious paper, but as Demo
cratic organ.
Another rich quartz strike has been made
near Churntown, Shasta county, by John
Mahon. He brought samples to Redding
that showed more gold than rock
Charles Miller, young unmarried man,
was run over by train near Mobton sta
ton, on the Cascade division of the North
ern Pacific Railroad, and instantly killed.
There is harmony between the Utah ore
producers and the Salt Lake Chamber of
Commerce, heightened by their unity of in
terest in opposing Clevelaud's free trade
programme.
Charles S. King, editor of the Southern
Ut1h Times has been indicted for libel for
saying that Andrew Cotton was convicted
OF murder by the corrupt use of money in
Judge Boreman's Court.
Luther Elkins, one of the oldest pioneers
of Linn county, Or, died at Lebanon Tues
day last, aged IS years. He was a member
of the Territorial Legislature, and of the
Constitutional Convention.
The Napa jury in the case of William
Williams for murder brought in verdict
of murder in the second degree and recon-
mended the convicted man to the mercy
of the Court. The date for sentence is
Tuesday, December 9th.
The United States man-of-war has re-
turned from her'viSit to the Topolobampo
colonists. The commander rode $50 miles
through the country on horseback, and
says he found 102 colonists. All bad plenty
to eat and were receiving 50 per day. None
of them wished to leave.